Cloud-The Birth

         The term "cloud computing" was coined by University Of Texas professor Ramnath Chellappa in a talk on a "new computing paradigm"
       Cloud computing is one of the hottest buzzwords in technology. It appears 48 million times on the internet. Some accounts trace the birth of the term to 2006, when large companies such as Google and Amazon began using Cloud computing to describe the new paradigm in which people are increasingly accessing software, computer power, and files over the web instead of on their desktops.
      But the term was coined late to 1996. Still it doesn't appear in the Oxford English Dictionary. But its use is spreading rapidly because it captures a historic shift in the IT industry as more computer memory, processing power, and apps are hosted in remote data centers,or the "Cloud".                                                                                                                   With billions of dollars of IT spending in play, the term itself has become a disputed prize. In 2008, Dell drew outrage from programmers after attempting to win a trademark on "Cloud computing". Other technology vendors, such as IBM and Oracle, have been accused of "Cloud washing",or misusing the phrase to describe older product lines.